In search of self in India and Japan : toward a cross-cultural psychology /
"This book addresses a fundamental question - the universality of human nature ... Drawing upon work with patients and therapists in both India and Japan, he describes the profound difference between the Western individualized self and the familial self so central to Asian culture ... Of partic...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
[1988]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Pt. 1. The Indian and Japanese self and social change. Indian identity and colonialism ; Psychoanalysis in India and Japan ; The familial self, individualization, and the modernization process ; The dynamics of change in urban Indian and Japanese women ; The Indian self: reflections in the mirror of the American life style
- part 2. The Indian and Japanese self: theoretical perspcetives. The Indian familial self in its social and cultural contexts ; The Indian and Japanese familial self ; The spiritual self: continuity and counterpoint to the familial self ; Conclusions: psychoanalysis in civilizational perspective.